Open-Source Giant MySQL Acquired by Sun Microsystems
Jan 18th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Marketing, linux
MySQL is the industry leading open-source database solution which is widely popular and is used by several multi-billion dollar businesses. Yahoo, Google, Nokia and YouTube along with several others trust and use the powerful database. Sun is paying $800million for the acquisition and will be the new owner of the MySQL AB which is arguably the best open-source database solution available in the market today. Hopefully MySQL will continue to grow and serve the open-source community as it has done well in the past.
“Sun’s culture and business model complements MySQL’s own by sharing the same ideals that we have had since our foundation — software freedom, online innovation and community and partner participation. We are tremendously excited to work with Sun and the millions of members of the MySQL open source ecosystem to continue to deliver the best database for powering the modern Web economy.”
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